Not only does his use of supernatural elements within his works reveal the Elizabethans' obsession with mythical beliefs, but it also reveals his attitude toward these beliefs at different points of his writing career. ... As May notes, these people more that other people questioned matters beyond their vision (39). ... Due to the widespread obsession with the supernatural, Shakespeare was compelled as a writer to adopt the views of the majority. ... So Shakespeare packed his works with popular beliefs about the supernatural. Magic and supernatural beings occur in one-forth of Shakespear...

• Word Count: 1725
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Not only does his use of supernatural elements within his works reveal the Elizabethans' obsession with mythical beliefs, but it also reveals his attitude toward these beliefs at different points of his writing career. ... As May notes, these people more that other people questioned matters beyond their vision (39). ... Due to the widespread obsession with the supernatural, Shakespeare was compelled as a writer to adopt the views of the majority. ... So Shakespeare packed his works with popular beliefs about the supernatural. Magic and supernatural beings occur in one-forth of Shakespear...

• Word Count: 1725
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

39 Time to turn back and descend the stair, 40 With a bald spot in the middle of my hair -- 41 (They will say: 'How his hair is growing thin!") ... S. ... dying fall: love-sick Duke Orsino's opening line in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, "That strain again! ... Prince Hamlet: not Shakespeare's noble prince, who resisted the temptation to commit suicide in his "To be or not to be" speech (alluded to at line's end), but instead characters like Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (cf. 112-16), Polonius (cf. 117), and Osric (cf. 118). ... the Fool: Shakespeare's plays...

• Word Count: 6460
• Approx Pages: 26
• Grade Level: High School